Today. No reports of injuries. Stay at home orders remain in effect, and the contagion continues to worsen. As of this hour the chinese coronavirus labeled covid19 has affected 856,000 americans and killed 47,000 more. This as the Left Wing National Media once again pushing headlines that dont match stories. The Financial Times using leaked data from the World Health Organization to report that gileads drug remdesivir flopped in its first trial. The headline had investigators selling on wall street until gilead pointed out that study was terminated because it had low enrollment. And as such the study is simply inconclusive. Well have much more on this study. Also the latest developments in the fight against the virus later in the broadcast. There are breaking developments on capitol hill where house lawmakers are voting on a 484 million rescue bill to help Small Businesses to provide more money for hospitals and testing. The bills passage bringing Congress Response to nearly 3 trillion
Disease. Millions of u newly unemployed, depending on the actions they take. Financial disaster. More than 1 million americans have been tested positive for covid19. More than 67,000 lives have been lost. The loss of so many precious lives, the suffering of so many families to say goodbye to a loved one has been extremely painful, enough to break your heart. At the same time while we are grieving we are also inspired by the bravery of the doctors and nurses. Many of them on the front lines of the crisis to them we owe a debt of gratitude. The thank yous i hear out the window of the apartment and new york at 7 p. M. When we applaud them as they change shifts every night. It brings isolated new yorkers together. To deliver the people of the country and come together on several occasions to pass historic legislation in this time of crisis. They passed 96nothing which shows this body can come together in a time of crisis which should give americans hope and solace. But let me be very clear
Earlier this week. Chatss is part two of our with the chairs for those of you who tuned in monday night. We had the Democratic National Committee Chair and tonight we are excited to continue the conversation with the republican National Committee chair. I think this is the chairwomans second time with us at gu politics, the less time on campus and we are looking forward to the next time being back on campus as well. About where tonight the Campaign Stands for campaign 2020. Its primarily against the backdrop of this global pandemic. Heres how the conversation will go we will start with the first part of the evening with the chair and i having a conversation. About halfway through, we will invite students to join into that conversation with their questions. Participatingare on zoom, you will see at the bottom of your screen, the q a button, not the chat button to leave your question. Someone from our team will get back to you and thats where you should look at your chat. They will get b
Trump. This took place earlier today in albany. Good morning. Lets talk about where we are today, in terms of the data. Total hospitalizations ticked down again. That is good news. We will take it. It is better than going up. Again, this is one day, but it flattening, reducing slightly, depending on your point of view. Are you an optimist, a pessimist . A pessimist would say we are basically flat, optimist would say we are starting to trend down. It is a personality test. Net change in total hospitalizations is on decline. The three day average, which is more accurate than any one day number also says the same. The icu admissions is down. Thats not that telling to me, because the entire hospital is now basically an icu ward. The number of intubations is down. That is very good news. Intubations 80 of the time wind up in a person not recovering. So that is really good news. And the counter narrative, counter fact, number of new cases that walked in the door of a hospital is still about
Powers. Protesters there angry at whitmers decision to extend the states stayathome orders until the middle of next month. Meanwhile, in states like georgia the governor there allowing gyms, hair salons, that to too parlors and some other tattoo parlors and some other nonessential buzzes to reopen businesses to reopen. A number of virusrelated elements to report to you. We begin with the death toll in this country. The chinese coronavirus has now killed more than 50,000 americans and infected almost 900,000 nationwide. More federal help is on the way for Small Business and their workers, and more money for hospitals and testing. President trump has just signed that mammoth 484 billion relief package that will give more Financial Support to struggling Small Businesses across america. The relief package provides 310 billion for the Paycheck Protection Program, 60 billion for disaster loans, 75 billion for hospitals, 25 billion for more testing. During todays signing event the oval office